Textile-fiber mixing chamber

Abstract

In order to reduce the sliding friction between an endless conveyor which was up to date constructed as a flexible conveyor belt and the stationary chamber floor of a textile-fiber mixing chamber provided with a pneumatic charging device and an endless conveyor which is moveable over a stationary chamber floor in order to transport the fiber material piled up in the mixing chamber to a blender emptier, the endless conveyor according to the invention is constructed as a conveyor provided with bars which are arranged at intervals and whose ends are fixed to circulating driven endless driving and carrier units.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. In a textile flber mixing chamber comprising an open top for receiving fibrous products to be mixed before other processing, the chamber having a vertical side and back walls to confine the product, having an open front side permitting mixed products to be transported out for removal from said chamber, a stationary floor capable of supporting product, and a motor means for propelling product from said chamber, the improvement comprising a. an endless conveyor belt means disposed adjacent said floor and motively aligned to feed the egress side of the chamber consisting essentially of a parallel pair of endless link chains spaced apart and substantially filling the width of said chamber, being synchronously linked while in movement;   b. a plurality of members each having an outwardly orientated U-profile and extending transversely between the parallel chains, with the lineal distance between successive members being substantially less than the distance between the chain themselves; and   c. an offset linking bar disposed at each end of each transverse member with said bar having its lower oriented edge pinned to the base portion of the member end and its upper oriented edge pinned to one link of the abutting endless chain, and with an opposing pair of linking bars positioned between the chains so as to retain the transversely oriented member substantially at right angles to the direction of chain travel.   
     
     
       2. In a textile-fiber mixing chamber according to claim 1, wherein the upper stringers of the link chains are supported by the stationary floor of said mixing chamber. 
     
     
       3. In a textile-fiber mixing chamber according to claim 1, wherein said side bars are on the one side screwed on the bars and on the other side welded on the chain links. 
     
     
       4. In a textile-fiber mixing chamber according to claim 1, wherein said chamber floor is provided in the edge regions of both its longitudinally extending upper surface strips with a layer of a material which favors sliding and is abrasion-proof. 
     
     
       5. In a textile-fiber mixing chamber according to claim 1, wherein the upper stringers of the link chains are protected by cover-plates which are fixed to the lateral chamber walls.